By the time she was a little girl, Siria Andre had already dealt with things no child should. With an alcoholic British father and fiery Iranian mother, things were turbulent from the start. By the time she was a teenager, she was being moved from relative to relative like a piece of furniture, never really belonging in one place.By sixteen she was sexy and fearless and on the streets of London, working at a shop on the world-famous Carnaby Street and partying at the Hippodrome, running into rock stars and sleeping till noon.By seventeen, she found herself in the dark undercurrent of sunny and palm-tree-lined Los Angeles, learning to pick up the tricks of the Hollywood trade quickly. She fought her way past rapists, creeps, and psychos, but was not quite able to fight certain substances that were helping her to deal with her increasingly dangerous and tragic life. How does someone break through every odd set against her and live to tell the tale? This is the true story of a tenacious and gutsy girl fighting addiction and struggling to survive by herself. After several arrests, jail time and almost losing her life, she had a shot at rehab, where they told her to watch out for the pink cloud period: A time where an addict feels really great about their new sober life; so good that they are at risk for relapse. Could she break her cycle of addiction? Or would she always be chasing that pink cloud...
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